Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

I liked television, and television liked me.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

There were no bubbles before there were media.

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Entertainment and information work well together.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.